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The Implementation of Crisis Intervention Teams In-School Districts
Get PDFStatistically, it is estimated that one in six United States youth aged 6-17 experience a mental health disorder each year (NAMI, N.D.) School districts are faced with handling individuals daily who are in crisis. Implementing crisis intervention teams in school districts will ensure mentally ill students are not criminalized, support can be given to staff members, and community members can be educated. The rise of active shooter events in schools has also caused trauma to the student and staff involved. School districts should deploy an in-house crisis intervention team (CIT) in the event of a crisis to provide the proper care. Also, suicidal thoughts, depression/mood, and suicide attempts are the top three reasons youth visit the emergency department (Cloutier et al., 2010). Youth are facing tons of pressure, and school districts can meet them where they are and get them the help they need. By implementing crisis intervention teams in schools comprised of law enforcement, school officials, and mental health professionals’ students will be more likely to gain academic success. All school districts should implement a crisis intervention team to provide quality mental health services to persons with mental illness.LEMI
Trinity River Authority Project: Carol Claybrook
Get PDFOral History with Carol Claybrook about the Trinity River AuthorityCarol Claybrook has worked for the Trinity River Authority (TRA) for 4 ½ decades, beginning her career as a temporary employee filing papers and culminating as the Executive Assistant to the Director. Having worked over the years for various departments within the TRA, Carol is the only current employee to work under all three TRA directors, David Brune, Danny Vance, and Kevin Ward; she has seen the evolution of the TRA, its policies and its interactions with Texas waterways. Mrs. Claybrook discusses diverse ways the TRA and the communities along the river have worked over the years to clean and protect the river. Since the 1970s, Trinity River Authority has consistently increased the assets under their care and now it’s the political subdivision for the Region C Water Planning Group—working directly with the state to incorporate TRA goals into the state water plan.
A turning point for the TRA and the Trinity River discussed by Carol, was the passage of the Clean River Act of 1991 and subsequent Clean River Program, passed by the Texas Senate. These placed restrictions on industrial dumping into waterways and established regulations on water quality, initiating consistent monitoring of rivers for pollutants. These enabled TRA to create outreach programs to promote conservation and preservation, notably with educational activities in public schools. The TRA interacts with students through art contests to help the younger generation understand the impact of Texas waterways and their own environmental impact on the health of Texas water. Ultimately state programs helped to expand TRA into water purification, used for irrigation and also put back into Texas waterways.
TRA has also evolved internally; it has become very similar to a modern corporation, supporting the needs of their employees with attractive pension plans, flexible hours and increased paid time off. This modernization has served to create an evolving internal structure serving the continued growth and prosperity of the Trinity River, Texas communities and the state.
Carol Claybrook has interacted with the Trinity River Authority Board of Directors, the H. Ross Perot Group, as well as city and state leaders, in her 45 years of service. She has assisted TRA leadership in illustrating to surrounding communities and the state the importance of the Trinity River; the use of community action coupled with Earth Day and Texas Water Day activities has increased the water quality of the Trinity River. Carol has been responsible for timely and detailed communication between the Trinity River Authority and the state and has represented the TRA throughout her career
Social Media Influences on Law Enforcement
Get PDFSocial media has been around so long that many cannot remember a time without it. It has grown so much in power that it has given people fame, or, in some cases, taken their reputations and washed them down the drain. Social media has become so prevalent that companies and agencies have grown to rely on social media to relay information to the public. This means that law enforcement has a decision to make. The decision to join social media does not seem plausible at first. However, law enforcement should use social media as a tool to control the narrative that the public receives, then the public will only benefit from it. Law enforcement must not be afraid of the changes that are brought to society from social media, but instead embrace them. Social media and law enforcement must work together to create transparency and allow for the public to benefit from social media use. Regardless of the suspicions of having law enforcement use social media, creating a clear social media policy and maintaining it will allow for law enforcement and the public to reap the benefits.LEMI
Keynote: Motivating & Focusing Students in the Age of AI
No full textThe excitement (and panic) surrounding A.I. is shattering expectations around assignments, assessment, class preparation, and attendance while challenging us to build more future-proof and inclusive classrooms. If there was ever a moment to improve the quality, equity, and impact of our teaching, that moment is now. Together, we will examine the skills and content that will matter most in this new age, the role and value of human thinking, and how we will discern ‘quality’ in our respective fields. Relentlessly focused on the tangible, attendees will also learn techniques to transform assignments and assessments to motivate and engage students by placing greater emphasis on the process and experience of learning
Carotid Restraint
Get PDFIt has been shown that the Carotid Restraint has its place in law enforcement as an effective tactic that when applied in physical confrontations to control combative subjects is a benefit. The Carotid Restraint has been shown to be safe if applied correctly. Based on the potential of encounters between police and combative subjects, multiple tactics and techniques need to be available to officers. The Carotid Restraint is another “tool on the belt” that can be a tremendous asset in the control of combative subjects which in turn will reduce injury to all parties involved and as well as lower the potential of a liability claim from an excessive use of force issue. The use of the Carotid Restraint has provided officers, no matter their size or strength level, the ability to successfully control and safely subdue combative persons as well as improve their confidence level during a physical confrontation. Research has proven the Carotid Neck Restraint if properly applied can be used safely without injury to the officer or suspect. The key to using this technique lies in the proper training and continuous review of department policies to ensure that civil liability issues are avoided. Based on studies law enforcement should consider the utilization of the Carotid Restraint and move the technique to a lower level of force on an agency’s force continuum as opposed to deadly force.LEMI
Character Development Training for Law Enforcement Agencies
Get PDFAn indication that a law enforcement agency is engaging in a partnership with the community while accomplishing the police mission is the community's perspective of their law enforcement agency. The positive or negative perspective is based on how the organization interacts with the community. An organization that conducts itself while understanding they are part of the community, and not separated from it, reflects the values, beliefs, and diversity of that community. The perspective is also shaped by the organization's reputation, which is shaped by the effectiveness of the teams. These teams must be led by leaders of character and be comprised of officers who can make ethical decisions. Ethics training alone is not enough to accomplish these goals because ethical decision-making is just part of the solution. An officer can have the ability to identify an ethical dilemma, be able to reason through the issue to identify the ethical choice, and still not act on the decision. Law enforcement agencies should engage in character development training to shape, encourage, and grow their employees into men and women who make ethical decisions and have the character necessary to implement and act on those decisions.LEMI
The Bill Blackwood Law Enforcement Management Institute of Texas
Get PDFCurtailing police officers' abuse of authority is an important and relevant issue in these highly fraught times when Americans call for all police officers to be held accountable for their actions and decisions while on the job. Yet, in 2021, most departments only require a recruit to have a high school diploma. A recruit then has no obligation or incentive to pursue a college degree. There are many arguments for and against requiring a four-year degree in incoming recruits. The most crucial argument is if the benefits, including reduced use of force in confrontations and a higher ethical standard, outweigh the detriments, such as cost, then requiring, or, at least encouraging a degree, should be a top priority for departments of the country. The author explores the issue by discussing the benefits of obtaining a college degree, the difficulties in doing so, and how departments can help incentivize and subsidize a college education. History shows police officers that they are not originally the "out for the good of the community" heroes that people would like them to be. In the early, police departments were created to maintain order, use force if necessary, and serve the interests of the rich and powerful. Over time, the profession has changed to one of protecting the public at large. However, many officers have proven to be woefully close-minded and short on ethics without the advantage of a college education. The author shows how beneficial a college experience can be and offers ways for individuals and departments to incentivize and subsidize the attainment of a four-year degree, even if it happens after the recruit has become a full-time employee. The author concludes with the recommendation that departments open the door to help their recruits and officers improve themselves through higher education.LEMI
Teaching Change with a New 3Rs
No full textThis is a practical and active workshop for all faculty that distills the latest scholarship on how students learn to change into tested techniques and best practices that work. Decades of research have brought an explosion of knowledge about how human evolution has shaped the way we remember, process, and think. Better discussions and assignments require designing for the collaborative but socially conforming human brain. We will learn how to disrupt the social reasoning (what will my friends think) that alters how we see evidence, disrupts how we experience class discussion, and interrupts our ability to change
A QUALITATIVE EXPLORATION OF LICENSED PROFESSIONAL COUNSELORS’ THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIPS WORKING WITH CLIENTS WITH BODY IMAGE CONCERNS
Get PDFCounselors working with clients with body image issues might also struggle with body image concerns, and how they manage this struggle within the therapeutic relationship could be a key factor in treatment effectiveness. Exploring and understanding successful counselors’ methods would benefit counselors, clients, and society. The purpose of this transcendental phenomenological study was to explore body image concerns of licensed professional counselors who currently work with clients concerned or diagnosed with body image, disordered eating, and eating disorder symptomology. The theoretical framework comprised feminist psychodynamic theory, which suggests that internalizing culture is part of developing individual perspectives on body image, and objectification theory, indicating how Western beautify standards have led to the objectification and sexualization of thin women. Answering the research question required exploring counselors’ perspectives of how their body image influences the therapeutic relationship with clients who present with body image struggles. Moustakas’s transcendental phenomenology was the approach used to explore the experiences of licensed professional counselors with their body images when working with clients with body image distortions. Data analysis occurred following the seven steps of Moustakas’s modified van Kaam method. Analysis of the data collected from semistructured interviews with 11 participants elicited three significant themes: (a) working with clients who struggle with body image concerns affects counselors’ body image awareness, (b) working with clients who struggle with body image increases counselors’ positive body
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image, and (c) education and supervision are needed to address body image when working with clients with body image concerns. The study has implications for direct therapeutic work for clinicians, counselor educators, and supervisors. Clinical improvement could occur through body image–specific training, continuing education, and supervision in working with the body image of both counselor and client
FOCUSED ATTENTION MEDITATION AND OPEN MONITORING MEDITATION ON AN ATTENTION NETWORK TASK: EXAMINING A METACOGNITIVE MODEL OF MINDFULNESS
Get PDFSemantic ambiguity in the meaning of mindfulness has produced challenges in operationalization, measurement, and interpretation of empirical investigations contributing to wide-spread conceptual and methodological issues. The current study utilized a multimodal approach to investigate mental faculties hypothesized to underlie a state of mindfulness in accordance with Jankowski and Holas (2014)’s metacognitive model of mindfulness. More specifically, the current study examined the effects of two different meditation methods among undergraduate students: open monitoring meditation (OM, n = 37 and focused attention meditation (FA, n = 37) as well as a mind wandering (MW, n = 36) active control. There were no significant differences between interventions on the mindful metacognitive experience of curiosity (TMS-C), the mindful metacognitive knowledge of decentering (TMS-D), or the mindful metacognitive skill of attention (ANTR). Explicit monitoring (JOPA) did not moderate the effect of these interventions on curiosity and decentering or operate as a mechanism of the effect of these conditions on mindful metacognitive skills (i.e., executive control). Overall, the results of the present study did not support a priori hypotheses. Thus, a brief online OM intervention may not have adequately evoked a mental state distinguished by receptive awareness in comparison to FA